7 More Ben Affleck Movie Quotes The GOP Can Use (PICTURES)

It looks like the debt ceiling negotiations in Washington have become officially ridiculous.

During a conference on Tuesday, House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) showed a scene from Ben Affleck's movie "The Town" as a way to motivate fellow Republicans to back House Speaker Boehner's debt ceiling plan. Yeah, "The Town." The one about a bank robbery.

Even Affleck thought the choice was bizarre (and suggested they look at "The Company Men" instead). Our own Jason Linkins points out that the GOP could have chosen a lot worse. But we think they were on the right track by using a line from an Affleck movie as their debt-slashing credo -- they might have just chosen the wrong one.

Check out these seven Ben Affleck movie quotes we think the GOP could draw inspiration from (conveniently presented by the party's star players) below. Vote for your favorite!

1 of 7

"Armageddon"

1 of 8

First Slide

Previous Slide

@

13 Amazing/Delicious Ice Cream Sculptures (PHOTOS)

19 Cat Slumber Parties (PHOTOS)

gadgets/slideshows/203940/slide_203940_598894_small.jpg

News Anchor FAIL Compilation 2012: The Best Accidentally Sexual News Bloopers (VIDEO)

Less Ambitious Novels: Twitter Users Dumb Down The Classics (TWEETS)

The Funniest Someecards Of The Week (PICTURES)

National Grilled Cheese Day: 17 Sexiest Grilled Cheese Sandwiches (PHOTOS)

comments(31)

Total comments: 31 | Post a Comment

1 of 8

This Quote

Rank #2  |  Average: 4

Perfect Nah

• 
  1
• 
  2
• 
  3
• 
  4
• 
  5
• 
  6
• 
  7
• 
  8
• 
  9
• 
  10

Top 5 Quotes

loading...

Top 5 Quotes

UserName

 | Become a fan

Picked These as the Top 5 Slides in the Slideshow

loading...

Top User Slides

← Prev|Next →

 | Become a fan

Picked These as the Top 5 Slides in the Slideshow

loading...

Users who voted on this slide

← Prev|Next →

loading...

Comments

[nitwitsRus]

12:24 PM on 08/05/2011

i didn't actually SAY anything ok! it was my fingers that did the talkin'!

[ValdaDeDieu]

01:03 PM on 07/29/2011

Funny, the Republicans accuse Democrats of being "in love" with Hollywood, Celebrity, Intellectualism: totem poles of achievements in the Arts and Creative endeavors, which require more Left Brain/Right Brain cohesion, and therefore, are essentially Liberal-- yet Republicans are the ones who confuse reality, and never seem to get subtext, so they use the wrong allusions in movies EVERY time...

[Ainsaade]

01:20 PM on 07/28/2011

The Gigli quote is right on. Encapsulates the right's attitude very accurately.

[fredisfred]

11:58 AM on 07/28/2011

The Dogma and Boiler Room quotes are dead on.


Years from now, people will read about this in history textbooks and call this the WTF era of American politics.

[PurityOfEssence]

11:24 AM on 07/28/2011

Wow! - Not about the quotes - that someone actually saw Gigli.....

[quixoto]

02:56 PM on 07/28/2011

I still can't believe that Pacino was in that movie.

[dumpsterRoyale]

11:18 AM on 07/28/2011

"Even Affleck suggested they look at "The Company Men" instead"..my thoughts exactly??

[John Stopple]

11:08 AM on 07/28/2011

"You like apples? How do you like them apples"

Matt Damon can get in on the fun, too.

[bigabe5553]

10:00 AM on 07/28/2011

As I always said the Republicans are a bunch of Schmucks as stupid as anything even an ape is smarter than them and they want to run for president even sarah palin who can see Russia from her house is just as smart so think before you want to vote for a Republican

[ZMP]

09:37 AM on 07/28/2011

The GOP are showing their pathetic, raggedy-ol-man edges. Time for another term of Obama and then an Independent-Party president!

[Hypnos Rises]

01:50 AM on 07/28/2011

Maybe the republicans can say what the Captain and crew said during the capsizing of the titanic. It was something along the lines of "Oops!"

[littlebrowngirl]

11:16 PM on 07/27/2011

Affleck's best work. Smokin Aces.

[Piero Amadeo Infante]

10:03 PM on 07/27/2011

And we support these jerks!
http://papamalo.wordpress.com/2011/07/27/5-ways-you-support-the-far-right-without-knowing-it/

[WhatTheWhatThe]

03:08 PM on 07/28/2011

Interesting link, but considering that you would have to avoid concerts or other events with more than 2000 people and the list of retailers included almost every one, this could be a challenge.
A couple of ones on the retailer list I would question - Albertsons bought Jewel which IS a union shop; an individual Ace Hardware can be privately owned. Would that make a difference?

[Lindstr7]

08:55 PM on 07/27/2011

"Your hard on for smite." perfect description for the TGOP. Anything the dems agree to suddenly becomes bad even though it's something we just proposed five minutes ago.

[MsCanuck]

08:16 PM on 07/27/2011

From Daredevil:

Hey, that light? At the end of the tunnel? Guess what? That's not heaven...

[MrsDalloway]

08:02 PM on 07/27/2011

"Convincing a town to approve something that's already in their best interest, that's just delayed common sense!" Ollie; from Jersey Girl. Apropos, methinks!

[MsCanuck]

08:09 PM on 07/27/2011

You beat me to it, i was just about to post that : )